Roderick on the Line

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00:00:32 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Marilyn [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► how's it going good I there was a storm [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► up here in Washington and I left my [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► office windows open a crack and the [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► storm opened them up all the way and [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► fill the room with storm [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► oh no they appreciate perimeter yeah so [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► everything is covered with a fine layer [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► of ash and amazingly like the ceiling is [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► suddenly peeling I don't know how it got [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► up to the ceiling [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► sure this isn't a dream ahead and the [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► curtains were all askew and it was very [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► exciting to because I saw when I pulled [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► up I saw that the windows were all the [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► way open and I was like who's been in my [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► office opening the windows and then I [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► came in and I was like oh the storm was [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► in my office and non rainstorms a [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► windstorm yeah we get those in the [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► northwest quite quite a bit and when the [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► seasons change we get a big windstorm [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► and so it they are accompanied by rain [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► often and and this one was but but my [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► sense is that it's mostly wind that got [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► in here and and did its dirty business [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► oh my gosh that's ash from all the fires [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► huh who knows where the where the lip [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► the thin coating of greasy ash came from [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► but yeah so like living it up on its [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► like something so like living in a bomb [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► travis has resin dude yeah except [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► there's no like there's no water bug [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► where's the carb where's the car where [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► is the car John I told you the story [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► right about the friend of mine from [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► Florida that that woke up and took a big [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► hit off his bong and then realize that [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► then a a water bug had been hanging out [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► of his bond was now in his mouth [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► oh one of those flying Florida [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► cockroaches this is [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► size of a tennis shoe but imagine you [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► just like our little wake and bake [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► oh no do it was alive when a hole dude [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► it was so live we so hard from living in [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► a ball you that must have harsh mellow [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► dude he was just chillin in his bong an [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► office and he's like oh no wow oh my god [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► totally in your mouth could be on [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► oh do you need to do any kind of I don't [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► know like regulation damage control with [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► you what you just scrape it off your [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► stuff but either so I cleared a little [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► area right here for my elbow anywhere [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► you want a blazer right now [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► no I'm not today you know in fact I've [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► already have already encountered one [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► person today who made a comment my good [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► friend Jason Finn saw me and he said so [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► I you've just let yourself go to shit [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► now you don't you're not even wearing a [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► button button up shirt 20 supporter [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► always a supporter to t know blazer no [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► no tie [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► now you're just in a t-shirt and jeans [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► and I was like you know what fuck it [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► seasons changing before I got nobody to [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► impress anymore i took a shower today [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► the only reason I took a shower is that [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► my family including my darling daughter [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► had started to comment that Daddy smell [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► funny [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► oh because i had just let myself just go [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► to hell over the weekend and I was like [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► all right fine I'll take a shower [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► I'm not above it uh-huh but I'm not [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► gonna put I'm not you know more and [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► white socks today i'm not i'm not [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► dressing up for anybody anymore [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► well it's not labor day yet true that's [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► right you can still wear white socks [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► Johnny said only I feel like there's you [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► got Memorial Day and Labor Day and those [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► sort of book and the it's okay to wear [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► in formal clothes and white shoes are [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► there other days in the year to change [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► which are allowed to wear em good point [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► our good question i think that there are [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► there's a limited number of time number [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► number number of weeks in the year that [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► you can wear any item of clothing that [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► has a wreath or a reindeer on it [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► right so you have you start doing that [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► before I mean personally I feel like [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► thanksgiving is is the day before which [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► you should not wear or have anything to [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► do with the reindeer it's gonna seem [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► like the washer broke [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► yeah right exactly if it it's a lot [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► that's a laundry date I peril [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► I feel like if it's before thanksgiving [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► and a reindeer comes up to you on the [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► street and tells you that his fan belt [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► broke and his wife and daughter are [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► waiting in the car around the block and [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► all he needs is five dollars you tell [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► him to fuck off before before [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► Thanksgiving after thanksgiving you go [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► yeah okay I'll up i'll buy white part of [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► the holiday spirit [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► yeah the reindeer out so that's that's [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► one thing [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► definitely I feel like you know I'm [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► saying about this the other day in my [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► mind's eye on sep tember first of the [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► year and i don't mean the calendar i [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► mean the year as the year occupies [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► physical space the year takes a right [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► turn a 90-degree right turn September [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► first and the implication of that right [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► turn in my mind's eye is that the year [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► is square and that every four months it [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► takes another right turn [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► but that is not actually how the year is [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► built the rectangular year [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► well no I mean for oh I'm sorry every [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► three years every three years it would [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► take a right turn [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► I'm sorry every three months what am I [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► talking about every three months [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► you are so high right now that's pretty [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► high the timer october november december [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► so it's the last third of the year it's [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► like you turn the corner on a triangle [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► that right well so but here's the [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► problem [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► there's definitely a right-angle turn [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► September from August August your head [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► along in an east-west direction and then [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► September first you take a right hand [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► turn 90 degree turn and now you are [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► headed in my mind's eye [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► you're headed south into fall [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► and then you get in you're headed south [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► into fall and and you know and maybe a [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► little bit downhill but then sort of [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► after thanksgiving you start to go [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► uphill and then christmas is there and [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► then at New Year's you definitely take [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► another 90 degree right hand turn now [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► headed west into the new year right but [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► then somewhere in january-february you [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► start to edge to the right you're not [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► taking a right hand turn but you heading [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► right you're you're veering right into [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► march april and that's kind of a rounded [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► turn where you're headed [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► you know you're headed north again but [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► in a little bit of a you know it's a [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► little bumpy the ride but definitely [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► bye-bye may you're headed north [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► you're heading in a northerly direction [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► and then in June there's a kind of an [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► it's not a it's not a gradual turn it's [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► an angled turn it can and i cannot to [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► stern like an obtuse turn nice easy turn [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► they're definitely headed north at this [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► point but you're headed in a kind of at [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► an angle so that when you get to july [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► again you have to you have to like comp [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► the rest of that turn if you're going to [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► make it to that if you're going to make [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► it back to sep tember so july and august [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► are headed [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► I think kind of in a I mean that through [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► a series of minor turns they have to end [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► up headed back east but it's very funny [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► that the spring and summer is a series [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► of gradual angled turns whereas spall [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► and winter are are defined by these two [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► right angle turn I should have been [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► drawing this instead of just strictly [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► listening [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► yeah its contents maybe they could draw [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► that up for us and I feel like somewhere [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► in the shape of the year the shape of [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► the year and feeling februari March [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► there might actually be turns that are [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► kind of back to the west a little bit [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► like [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► it's not it's not clear that it's always [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► rounding back to september's some of [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► that some of those weeks like right [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► around him especially around it leap [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► year you know you're going uphill and to [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► the west babies that a third dimension [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► you know before your like before you [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► level off and head start headed down [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► into the North back into spring so there [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► are several days in there where I feel [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► like costume changes are maybe not [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► mandatory but but certainly new things [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► come into play because I'm wearing a [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► tweed hat today and I feel like it looks [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► good on you [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► I feel like that is pushing it for for [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► august 31st it seemed more like i like i [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► like i like fall headgear [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► yeah I feel like I feel like a tweed hat [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► is is it you shouldn't even wear it in [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► September I feel like it's an october [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► november december thing yep [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► yeah but then in by December you should [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► be he should be transitioning into a [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► kind of a fur hat or a knit hat over and [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► then in the spring [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► you're going back you gradually as time [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► goes on from from knit caps to kind of [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► you know 22 whimsical hats like an era [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► the head type thing [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► well no I mean I do have a baseball app [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► that has moved moose antlers all I want [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► this so much when I was in like seventh [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► grade and that's when I got it and i've [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► been wearing it ever since [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► but you know like you that's when you [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► start to wear your chapeau your various [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► Shippo your newsboy cap and your and [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► your you know your felt fedora type pats [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► something jaunty in the spring [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► whoo-hoo and then in that and then in [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► late spring you can bring a bust out the [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► baseball hats and all that stuff is it's [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► really seasoned to taste i know this is [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► not on the list for John's next project [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► which we should talk about at some point [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► by down I IC IC possibly a little thin [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► volume the John fashion all aspects of [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► fashion not sure [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► men's clothes but fashion as as the as [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► the elephant in the cultural room [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► mmm fashion vs STYLE&FASHION reverses [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► preference [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► yes all kinds of those little shades I I [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► went to I went to the junkyard today I [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► had a very busy gay i woke up this [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► morning I put the baby in the bath then [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► I made her some bagels and then I put on [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► an airplane to Paris don't want to the [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► law [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► Oh blah here's how you say as a [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► thank-you merci [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► you can say merci bien or merci beaucoup [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► depending on you know how funny you want [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► to sound then i left the airport I went [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► immediately to the junkyard [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► I spent an hour at the junkyard and I [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► and I honestly felt like you know I [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► could just have I could just do a TV [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► show of just me wandering around a [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► junkyard because there's so much to talk [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► about i think we people watch that [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► there's so much I don't give your [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► remarks about the things that are in the [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► junkyard or just you think about life [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► well the thing is if you can walk around [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► a junkyard and not think about life i'll [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► put in with you [TS]

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00:14:07 ◼   ► like I definitely not as you're [TS]

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00:14:11 ◼   ► yes that's right it's like somebody dies [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► or something you're going to think about [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► life [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► alright you know if you it so you can [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► comment [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► are you coming all day on the stuff [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► that's in a junkyard but your cars are [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► very personal very personal for people [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► and he always all I I forget how [TS]

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00:14:29 ◼   ► hmm i dunno i have to tell my daughter [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► like when you know you know kids they [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► walk around walk real slow and touch [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► everything and reminders like don't [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► touch somebody's cars telling me about [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► her day she's walking along and then she [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► starts she starts kind of like handling [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► the logo on the car and like he can't do [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► that like somebody in some places that [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► some see it's easy like handling their [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► Mercedes logo you do not want to get [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► that person that you don't you do not [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► want to provoke somebody thats right [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► dont even even if you're walking along [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► absent-mindedly just drawing one finger [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► along the side of a car somebody's going [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► to be mad about it [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► yep so why around a junkyard you're [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► looking at you know there's 10,000 [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► stories in The Naked City and every one [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► of them ends up in a junkyard but also [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► it's not to think about that a lot with [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► the corner its everytime everytime i see [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► a bad tattoo i am actually say it's mike [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► as you see that you see that someday a [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► corner is going to have to kind of draw [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► that notebook yeah it's likely that [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► person is going to be dead and they're [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► gonna have to draw that tattoo for the [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► record [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► yeah the last or describe it the most [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► person that's going to see it and really [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► appreciate it is the is the is the guy [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► at the crematorium that's a that's [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► making like eighteen dollars an hour [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► apparently at our German Blackwater [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► gothic how I got a problem original [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► certain [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► rock chalk I'm sure that they just have [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► I'm sure they have just uh a picture [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► book of tattoos and you just circle the [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► one just like I owe symbol for Shanti on [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► the back of her neck circle kanji symbol [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► for regret looks like winnie-the-pooh [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► flying a yin-yang kite circle so anyway [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► you're isn't your internet actually a [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► junkyard is the story of [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► twentieth-century industrialism write it [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► so that means either their cars there [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► that I mean you don't see a lot of cars [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► from the thirties anymore in a junkyard [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► but you definitely see them from the [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► forties and fifties if you're lucky and [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► then all their full of cars from the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► seventies and eighties and and just then [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► on all the stories that are good but [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► then then your mind starts to wander and [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► you're thinking about Oh life and times [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► and the wars and you know and Hermann [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► Goering and then pretty soon you're [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► thinking about dim sum and it's getting [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► late in the day and what is a what do [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► you have to do how how do you have to [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► get out of here on the way out of the [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► junkyard [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► I'm talking to the guy behind the [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► counter who calls he's calling me boss [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► he calls me Bobby nice which is really [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► nice i like boss I feel like getting [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► called boss by the guide the junkyard is [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► exactly right and he's got he's not [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► suffering fools heat because first of [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► all he sees the guy working at the jack [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► currencies more fools per capita than [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► anybody it aside from like a reporter [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► for entertainment tonight at the VMAs [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► right they're going to see a lot of [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► fools but the guide the junkyard sees a [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► different kind of fool i'm talking to [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► him and I and I and he looks over my [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► shoulder at somebody coming through the [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► front door and he says hey buddy hey you [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► know what you got [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► you put that back don't just leave it [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► and so I turn around and the guide [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► walked in the door and somehow something [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► had something in the door jamb had [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► fallen down [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► the pneumatic door closer and the guy [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► had water guy walked in and he's wearing [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► a baseball hat that's camouflaging it [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► has a deer on it and he just seemed seen [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► it and the guy behind the counter and [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► seen him see it and he just kept going [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► and so these discipline name that the [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► counterman is disciplining the guys like [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► you got it you know like fix that you [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► don't just walk in and leave it so the [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► guy goes back and he starts to try to [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► fix it fix the door and I'm in the [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► middle of asking the counterman question [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► so I I figure okay the guys fixing the [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► door now [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► now I now it's my turn so I say so [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► anyway is it possible that but the [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► counterman isn't paying attention to me [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► anymore he's focused on the door and he [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► says to the guy [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► hey hey pal you're making it more more [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► complicated than it needs to be [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► you just gotta and at that point a [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► second guy walking in the door stops and [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► starts helping the camouflage baseball [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► hat guy fix the door jamb but i can see [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► that the two of them together have now [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► made it a hundred times worse now the [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► entire top of the door is loose and and [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► the junkyard guy he's not going to go [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► out and get himself on principle on [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► principle he's not going to so so then [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► he says so then he's getting and i'm [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► looking at the junkyard guy and I'm [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► thinking okay my job right now is [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► graceful exit because I've already asked [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► I've already started to ask the [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► counterman my final question twice and [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► two times I haven't made it all the way [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► at the end of the question and now the [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► door is falling apart and I just want [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► out of here but I can't get out of here [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► because these guys are I've got the door [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► blocked and it's like literally now that [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► it's falling down around them so I can't [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► leave but I'm not going to stand here [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► and repeat my question a third time and [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► I'm not going to i'm not going to put [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► myself over to the side [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► and wait in a in kuwait line for the for [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► the attention to go back to me because [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► when it finally does there's gonna be [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► six guys in the room and they're all [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► going to turn me and go now what was [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► your fucking question [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► and my question is does not rate that [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► amount of attention right i'm at the [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► junkyard there guys here that are [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► rebuilding four-barrel carburetors [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► that's not what I'm doing now i just [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► went out and so I start to make my way [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► to the door at which point the [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► camouflage baseball hat time and his at [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► this and completely unrelated dude who's [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► in like a camel jacket the entire top of [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► the door frame false starts with all its [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► just falls completely I don't know how [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► they did it and the counterman is like [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► oh my you know it's like you guys come [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► on [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► and at a certain moment the one the [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► camouflage baseball hat guy is holding [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► up the holding up one side of the frame [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► and kind of leaning back and looking at [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► it with his head and the other guys on [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► the other side of the door holding up [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► the frame and they make a perfect like a [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► like a like a perfect Moorish arch one [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► hand up here the guys at back is arched [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► the other guys back is arched the the [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► door is falling down and I just make for [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► the gap and I as I'm as I leave I turn [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► and I I pointed the counterman and I say [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► I'll catch you later and proved right [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► through and right as i make as red as I [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► make it through the gap it's like the [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► Millennium Falcon going out of the [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► leaving the worms mouth in the asteroid [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► who heard a hold or just completely [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► comes apart and these guys are juggling [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► parts and they're bumping into each [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► other and it's just the catastrophe and [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► I just barely made it out and that for [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► all I know there's the half a dozen guys [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► still stuck in that auto parts store [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► because nobody knows nobody knows how to [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► leave [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► you got the last chopper out of Saigon [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► you know what I fucking did and I'm [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► grateful you know I'm grateful and part [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► of that is I surveyed the situation I [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► knew going in whatever the conversation [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► I was going to have that counter guy [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► could at any moment be interrupted by [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► somebody who needed it was like a [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► serious wrench turning guy who had a [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► serious question [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► I didn't foresee that the portal would [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► be closing so fast huh [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► so this day has had a lot of adventure [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► already and then I went to do the dim [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► summits play on so i pretty much [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► everything I know about junkyards comes [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► from like a scene in slacker [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► I I used to think a junkyard was like a [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► dump [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► I thought the place was kid I thought oh [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► junkyard that's a place we take an old [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► car is dead and it goes and lives there [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► and it's like it's like because I gotta [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► be heaven right but slacker help me [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► understand that there's a reason for [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► junk cars which is you go there and you [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► get parts from your model car in the [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► junkyard to put in your own car is that [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► how junkyard works is that correct that [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► is one of the things that you can do a [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► junkyard yes that's a very good idea [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► it's a great idea and back in the old [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► days when cars were things that normal [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► people could work on and they had you [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► know more or less interchangeable parts [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► a lot of them like if you had a Chevy as [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► my mom would say my mom is teaching my [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► daughter to say Chevy now that's how you [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► gotta stop that instead well I can't I [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► mean it's parties very strong-willed [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► John it's part of our vernacular and I [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► don't she doesn't it's not like she's [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► it's not like she's correcting a her 1c [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► when she says chevy it's just that my [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► mom pronounces it should be [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► I've never heard that chevy's I never [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► heard shitty Senate doesn't know hi [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► thing must be some it's a western Ohio [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► thing and so she say so like my kid has [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► started to because she likes to call out [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► all the different kinds of cars you see [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► and identify cars [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► she knows every kind of car she knows [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► every kind of nut [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► and she knows every kind of car and he's [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► back name every kind enough and so she [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► she was driving down the street and one [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► of the games you like supply as you know [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► nissan toyota ford ford shivvy and I'm [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► like shit EP oh my god I've been hearing [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► that my whole life and now my kid is [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► saying it should be but it used to be [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► you could go to the junkyard if you had [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► a Chevy you knew that you just did find [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► a whole bunch of shit he's in the [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► junkyard and you'd find the shitty part [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► that you needed and it will bolt right [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► on to your car and now of course cars [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► are just they're made by 3d printers [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► they're basically computers with wheels [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► yeah they're just they're all injection [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► molded and none of them you know they're [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► not really like fixable in the same way [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► but there are enough people that I mean [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► when I was the hour-and-a-half i spent [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► walking around the rainy junkyard [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► looking for the particular part i was [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► looking for [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► there were a dozen other people out [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► there and you know you bring your own [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► tools to the junkyard is really huh [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► and so a bunch of people walking around [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► with their toolkits and they're they're [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► taking the trim off of the door of the [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► off the passenger side door of a ford [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► aerostar or they're you know they're [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► they're trying to figure out how to [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► dismantle the air-conditioning hoses [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► from a from a caprice classic and people [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► still enough people doing that kind of [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► work that there's that there's still [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► cause for other a lot fewer junkyards [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► and there were I think I mean I used to [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► spend a lot of time in them when I was [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► young because I i was trying to [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► customize my car [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► whatever [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► maybe if you own the land it's gonna be [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► a pretty good deal it's like a parking [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► lot right i mean like your he is not [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► going to cost you that much to have it [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► right and over time somebody will [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► eventually get the the manifold cover [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► case of that shitty exactly and then [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► when the car has been completely [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► stripped then you crush it and sell it [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► for the scrap metal value so when you [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► see those semi trucks driving down the [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► road with with the 25 squished cars on [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► the better huh [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► they're going from a junkyard to a metal [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► yard and then circle of life [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► that's right circle of life that's right [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► so wandering around i am what i was [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► looking for a specific part but as I but [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► I got I got caught up in the loop in the [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► lives of some of these cars where was [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► just like oh that that car could talk I [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► mean that car can talk because you all [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► you have to do is look at it and it's [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► telling you so much about itself and [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► what it's seen the miles its travels [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► literally and figuratively [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► so it was it made me want to do is go [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► back to the junkyard [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► I haven't been to one in a long time i [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► was looking for a specific part but [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► really i don't i don't want it i don't [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► want to need any one part i want to go [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► there and find the part I didn't know I [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► needed [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► mm you know mmm such as a candle thing [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► you're you're on a building from mine [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► except you're not young right it's like [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► a young man's journey that's right you [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► don't you may not know what your what [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► your grill cup is but you want the one [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► that carpenter would use that's exactly [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► it you want to find a comment you want [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► to find a carpenter skup you walk around [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► that mean the first thing you have to do [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► is have faith that he step into the [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► abyss and that that they're they're not [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► going to fall [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► who but i mean i know i know a lot about [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► one of the things about a junkyard is [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► for it to be useful for you at all [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► you have to have a pretty good knowledge [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► of what I'm what all cars look like such [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► that you can see them in there [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► completely dismantled state [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► wrecked and picked over and still be [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► able to tell what kind it is right [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► because if you're in there looking for [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► apart from a Nissan say yeah yeah it's [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► don't make model year anything you gotta [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► be able to look across a field strewn [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► with junk cars where all the doors have [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► been taken off and the hoods are up and [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► the the glasses are broken and the roofs [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► are crushed and you have to be able to [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► teach you know use your encyclopedia of [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► of cues to say like because I for [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► instance i'm i'm looking for a Chevy [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► truck chevy truck from a certain era GMC [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► truck from certain era where a lot of [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► trucks in a junkyard but if you don't [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► know the difference between a Ford and [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► Chevy you spend all afternoon walking [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► all the way over to afford to I was [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► going to try and look for the logo will [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► goes long gone [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► can't break that truck that truck rolled [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► off rolled off the pacific coast highway [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► and down a hill and sat in the you know [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► set in the tide pool for four years and [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► got towed out you better be able to tell [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► that's a Ford well let's let's let's say [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► the obvious it is probably not too cool [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► to be using your iphone a lot at the [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► junkyard [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► well you know he doesn't like a little [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► bit like a tingling if you're certainly [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► if you're like what is this car [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► yeah and and and also one of the rules [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► of the junkyard is when what a body [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► meets a body coming through the Rye who [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► you don't really acknowledge the other [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► person catching the shitty exactly [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► because you are you are fucking [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► scavengers prefer in a boneyard [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► oh I see it's certainly a men's room if [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► you keep your own counsel [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► yeah you're not like PayPal my man there [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► to make friends yeah what are you [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► looking for like no this carpet checker [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► Imperial exactly [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► no you don't ask to borrow somebody's [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► tools you don't even this is one of the [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► few areas where where a where people are [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► going about their business such that you [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► don't even nod and may [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► i contact if you see if you come upon [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► somebody out there it's it is it's [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► already it's basically already two steps [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► toward the apocalypse so so your first [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► concern is to meet somebody in one of [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► those places you have to assume that [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► they want your water it's not become [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► addicted to water that's right but did [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► not have predicted the water but maybe [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► week [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► mmhmm yeah once again this episode of [TS]

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00:33:00 ◼   ► the loss just a quick side note i should [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► write this down [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► I know you got a lot of projects in your [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► player and another one would be just put [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► out the fucking rule book for all the [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► stuff that a lot of people don't know [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► out you could do it and anonymously [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► maybe more like some kind of a book like [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► you don't even miss the rules were not [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► even allowed to talk about and I'm sure [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► to tell you I didn't even know junkyard [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► head rules like that [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► oh yeah you could you could save me so [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► much indignity somebody from Vice [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► magazine Romy not very long ago and they [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► said would you write a book about her [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► write an article at least in her right [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► well that's why they're asking me would [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► you write up an article about all the [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► rules that people should know before [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► they act like citizen journalists [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► videotaping police brutality or whatever [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► yeah because i had made some comments [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► over the years to the effect of to the [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► fact that people that such a such a [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► volume needs to be widely disseminated [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► because people's citizen journalism is [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► being somewhat hamstrung by the fact [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► that they don't understand [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► portrait mode know and they don't [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► understand not to say fuck stock fuck [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► that these are good rules while they are [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► feeling video tapings John you do not [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► know how much intestinal fortitude it [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► takes for me every day to not walk up to [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► people grab their hand and turn it 90 [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► degrees but you have you a different [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► shape TV than i do you know that's gonna [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► look like you know what that's gonna do [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► you have any idea what does i know [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► people are taller than wide generally [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► but just doing a favorite hold it [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► sideways [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► yeah it's a basic rule I mean that one [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► that one that city in China exploded [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► there was some amazing footage of it [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► once again taken in standup camera mode [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► and and you're like oh my god this is [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► like the this is an incredible moment [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► you are watching an entire city explode [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► and no one has taught you how to hold it [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► free kick [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's also incredibly dorky to [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► watch [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► we just want is painful to watch because [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► you're going like Oh [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► it's almost like their thumbs over part [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► of the lens yeah so and the and the the [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► person from vice was very nice and and [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► actually like seemed like a really kind [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► of smart editor guy and was like hey you [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► know you want to write this or do you [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► want to collaborate on i was like i do [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► want to collaborate on it with you i [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► think that would be really that would be [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► really useful it would be good for [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► people we should collaborate on a guide [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► a citizen's guide to to you know to be a [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► amateur journalists [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► oh and so how especially especially with [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► the camera because I i can think of like [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► about by half a dozen things I wish [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► everybody knew about using the camera on [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► their phone that can make so much of a [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► difference [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► well the other thing is like don't pinch [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► zoom in now and don't ever first of all [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► move on that I think the very first [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► thing almost everybody needs to know is [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► like you see this in like when the first [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► time dad gets a camera in the eighties [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► it's like do not do a bunch of like we [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► don't like vine don't do all these like [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► three second shots don't know don't [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► short shots [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► don't move the camera keep the camera in [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► one place you think you need to move [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► your eyes don't move the camera [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► yeah yeah but turn the camera on put it [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► sideways and then walk as close to the [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► action as you can stay quiet and like if [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► you're gonna move if you're going to if [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► you if you need to move to get to get a [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► better view of it slow movements but not [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► with the you know move your body not the [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► not the don't wiggle the camera there's [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► so many things to say and an exciting [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► slide all that i would you also going to [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► the stuff like like know your rights [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► type stuff will absolutely have to talk [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► about that stuff but at and all of that [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► is part and parcel of saying like what [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► is interesting that even that's another [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► thing that a citizen journalist needs to [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► think about what is interesting about [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► this and because so often you see if you [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► see it some footage where the action [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► that they think is interesting is [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► completed and they they stopped filming [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► but that wasn't the end of what's [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► interesting about [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► that's her that wasn't you know that [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► wasn't actually the end of the scene [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► that brings I could be instantiated a [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► vent or the action is just one part of [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► it and especially in police cases what [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► happens next could be even more [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► important exactly internet like what [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► happens with the actual story if you're [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► watching a confrontation and then [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► somebody gets shot the end is not the [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► person got shot the end is like what [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► happens in the next 10 minutes that's [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► the whole case so all that and so that [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► the person from vice was awesome sent me [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► a long email with their thoughts and [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► their construction of it and and what [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► what you know how they imagine it and [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► then I just completely just drop the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► ball and didn't didn't reply which I [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► feel terrible about and I should maybe [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► go find that and and dig that up because [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► i have so much to say on the topic but [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► also have this show about the junkyard [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► that i'm working on when there's a lot [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► to do ever so many rules i mean the [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► volumes if it would just be what it [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► could be kind of like the 33 and a third [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► series of little books I was always [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► thinking something similar yes it's [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► bigger than a pamphlet but that the [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► shorter than a novel [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► yeah we're that it's just a series of [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► series of rulebooks how to behave at the [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► junkyard how to behave backstage at a [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► concert where you are not actually a [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► friend of anybody in the band but [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► somehow got backstage all you know I I [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► gotta tell ya I I think something like [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► this could be super-strong I think of a [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► book i mention this before but it's a [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► book that I adored in in college because [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► you know I'm an almanac i am a book of [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► lists Kyle of these books of of trivia [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► and rules of thumb and all those kinds [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► of things actually was wonderful series [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► of books called rules of thumb that were [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► just fantastic like you know you can [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► calculate how long you gonna wait in [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► line at the bank take the number of [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► people x 3.5 or whatever like how to [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► pick a line all that kind of stuff but [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► there's one called the modern man's [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► guide to life which is not quite as [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► Mookie as it sounds but it was full of [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► advice that people have written into [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► this guy about how to do different stuff [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► and none of them would achieve you know [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► would rise to the level of meeting a [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► chapter but they would be collected into [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► like you know the [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► different different kinds like you know [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► how to how to not look like a doofus in [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► a restaurant like I do all the stuff you [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► know how to how to basically fix your [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► car this kind of stuff I think something [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► like that John Waters guide to life [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► it's friendly feeling better title could [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► be extremely useful [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► thank you so much i'm gonna just start [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► writing it down right down the kinds of [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► things you want to collect and then [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► start uh you know gleaning the tips of [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► the tips late getting tips for my [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► podcast avoid saying things like [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► cleaning the tips how do you how do you [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► get a tow truck driver in Missouri to [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► let you ride in the cab [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► ok it could be better it was a visit [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► just extremely specific to you how do [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► you mean there's so much how to help [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► Gary remember that you've met yeah how [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► do you get if you if you are a Mayan [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► ruin and you want to go into the part [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► that's that's fenced-off who do you talk [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► to Tommy a lot of these things I mean [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► one of my favorites I can't do this but [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► i love that you can do this is is your [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► whole thing of like you know if you [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► wanna walk in somewhere walk in like you [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► own the place [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► yeah nobody nobody asked you just walk [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► right in no they're sooo me on the place [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► and then this also gives you lots of [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► opportunities to tell anecdotes right [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► well and you know what the thing of [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► course when you're young is that one of [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► the best anecdotes is getting thrown out [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► of a place when you get a little bit [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► older [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► it's it you know it's it's a lot harder [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► for me to get thrown out of a place now [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► because I kinda do look like I should [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► own the place and to get unceremoniously [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► booted out of a place that you look like [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► you should own it just you know I have [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► to dust off my hat because that you know [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► the guy throw out and throw your hat in [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► the street [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► yeah just optimization until you feel [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► your hand at I'd pick your pardon sir I [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► am as God made me sir [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► so I mean yeah you want to dim sum and [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► then we added we are our regular dim [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► summit where it was decided I was not [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► you and Jason Jason and I meet with two [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► other friends Cal McAllister who owns an [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► advertising agency called [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► the WAGs Lee school for girls uh-huh and [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► Matt Dresner who owns an advertising / [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► PR agency [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► oh man this is your extended marketing [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► team I've been hearing about this [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► because it's really you get all the [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► terrible ideas for stuff you should be [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► doing this is the team and the team's [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► decision today we're not meeting but its [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► people the decision of the team today [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► was like more of an old man and its [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► people here there is some kind of way I [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► might be able to promote my twitter feed [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► minutes here by advertising agency [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► friends and they're trying to they're [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► trying to expand my social media [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► recharge sure yeah but the decision was [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► listen we should just figure out how to [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► be multi millionaires and the and the [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► best anecdote was a cow [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► one of one of his close friends from [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► high school is the king of the yard pool [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► of the yard pool [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► yeah if you want to if you want a little [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► pond in your yard who he started out [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► this guy started outputting pawns in [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► people's yards like a lot of people like [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► a lot of pond guys start out all your [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► residential consumer ponds yeah you [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► start are probably working for a guy [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► that's installing ponds and then you you [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► build up a little nest egg and then you [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► start your own pond installation company [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► but this guy figured out was you know [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► when you want in the words of Mark Twain [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► when there's a gold rush he sell [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► pickaxes uh-huh right so he's out there [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► putting in ponds and he's looking up the [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► chain at the guy who's making the ponds [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► who's making huh [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► the pond equipment and he says this [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► guy's not this you know this guy's not [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► moving refrigerators he's not installing [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► color TVs that's all you do it that's [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► the way you do it he said by the counter [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► somewhere fulfilling pond parte orders [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► and so this friend of Calvin callisters [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► he systematize 'as the pond business [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► vertical integration [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► the phone so now he's not installing 500 [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► pounds in the summer he's selling 50,000 [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► blows 50,000 ponds all across America to [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► people all the part of people have to go [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► through any move up on food chain [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► that's right he became the BP camp on [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► man and so when I have a friend i have a [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► friend in seattle figure this out to we [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► legalized weed here [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► uh-huh and everybody was going to rest [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► everything all shit I better gotta be I [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► got a warehouse i gotta start growing [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► weed I gotta start selling weed I gotta [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► get in this weed business in on the [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► ground floor but I've got a pal who went [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► to China and figured out the weed [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► appliance the weed delivery appliance [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► that was going to be the industry [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► standard and then he cornered the market [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► on the weed delivery appliance so he [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► never has to touch a weed talking about [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► like 44 consumer to get into their [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► system [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► yeah i'm talking about a of the vaping [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► oh right gear right let's see that would [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► that the weed people are going to put [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► the weed into who never grow anything [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► that's right it's some kind of you know [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► it's some kind of like yeah yeah it's [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► like it looks like yeah that's where you [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► get the more intensified you're not like [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► really sucking on it like there's a [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► whole what I think there's a name for [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► this it's like vaping before we do they [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► call it [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► yeah I don't know some kind of Jabba the [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► Hutt technology you have seen people use [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► it on and I remember when they're [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► talking about what whether there should [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► be legal weed I gasps maybe the early [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► 2000s there is one go-to woman they [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► would always interview in California and [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► if you imagine like last week we don't [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► call them go tues and we're gonna hit [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► from another time but you're like a big [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► bag new york times sunday New York Times [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► comes in [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► yeah she looked like she was doing [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► something with filling that bag with [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► smoke and then and it was really [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► disturbing to watch her use it but but [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► then you get you get big hit of the weed [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► yeah that might be you might be that [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► might be something else that might that [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► might be [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► you know we used to cut the bottom of a [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► milk carton and stick it in a sink full [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► of water [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► I is your time was that can make a bong [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► out anything or paste [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► well we need to be a hobby of ours you [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► keep iPod to pretty much anything and I [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► don't like things from mcdonalds the [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► children would get his toys [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► what the hell good is that skill now I [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► know I know tears and rain so this guy [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► goes in part of his strategy that is not [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► just doesn't want to be pushing we see [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► also he wants to go and get exclusive [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► deals with if I could say Chinese makers [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► of the wii delivery system [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► selena is that nobody else to get [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► exclusive deal [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► he's got he's got the Northwestern's got [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► the pnw district locked in [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► well yeah he's provided the technology [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► so all these guys that are like oh man i [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► sold a thousand weeds [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► yeah he's like I saw a hundred thousand [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► we'd pellets or weed weed you know [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► pressurized we've rods and I mean it's [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► money in the bank this guy and he never [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► touched you never have to touch a weed [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► although i think he likes it but I had a [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► friend in college [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► who's big idea was he was going to make [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► bombs out of two cans and like stuff [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► like out of a like a like a school can [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► so at the time we were all I don't know [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► about I don't know about y'all down down [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► and had the new college in Florida yeah [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► but up in the northwest we were all [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► chewing tobacco all the time didn't we [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► were different stuff there and so we all [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► had we all in Copenhagen cans in our [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► back pockets creating very appealing [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► rings in our genes and my friend he took [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► that you can and he made a he made a [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► hole-in-one side on the run the rim on [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► the edge right a hole and then 90 [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► degrees around the circle he made [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► another hole and then he had a stem with [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► a bowl that fit inside one of the holes [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► its appellate it's super good and then [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► if you filled the toucan one-third full [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► of water [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► God and then put the lid on it it was it [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► was it was watertight ok and then you [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► turn the king [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► and at an angle and put your mouth over [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► the one hole and the bowl was in the [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► other hole and it's a fully functional [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► ball if the pit and and he and he [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► honestly was like I'm gonna make I'm [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► gonna make a million dollars i'm gonna [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► summon them because then when the thing [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► is when you when you want to break it [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► down you just dump the water out take [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► the stem out stick it in the toucan and [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► stick that you can you too can circle in [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► your jeans you can second that your [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► chick gets them it should if he had [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► called the juke it's it would be a [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► billionaire and Sam come on this is just [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► sent you a link this idea has been [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► colonized what I just look at the tip [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► can bong [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► oh my god if I see a picture of my [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► friend i am going to lose my shit well [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► there's a lot of there's a lot there's a [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► lot of a lot of variance here still not [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► entirely sure why you would want to do [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► this but ah alright not sure why you [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► would want to do it because of being has [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► been that's American ingenuity at the [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► heart of its etsy for weed yet the bomb [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► is just the partners with you oh my god [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► you can't boring there's hundreds of [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► them to get so while that one look at [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► that handsome let's get runs USB well [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► this guy's gotta this guy's got some [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► kind of holster for it [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► yeah looks like he's got so i guess [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► because utility kilt oh well camouflaged [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► on so people won't be able to see it so [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► this is called oh it's called the AK [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► files i thought it was that meant the [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► Alaska files but then i click on it and [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► it's a it's a website for people who [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► have ak-47 oh I see here's one made out [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► of a heinz ketchup bottle [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► alright my goodness just strange images [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► John so this guy so he's a heavyset guy [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► he's blacked out his eyes he's cradling [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► an ak-47 he's wearing a stripy sort of [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► French or Russian commando shirt [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► uh-huh and I gotta see this he's got a [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► toucan hipster Jennings comes calling it [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► a towel AK files IC tactical tobacco [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► patch [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► oh IC thats I get it it's a bedside it's [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► got that it's got a non-call velcro [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► anymore it's got the clove hitch or [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► whatever it's called that little hook [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► and loop the loop tactical hook-and-loop [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► look at that is a lie [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► this led this is a richer subculture [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► then I realized I instinctively don't [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► like that guy just because [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► come on yeah yeah there's just there's [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► something at the level whatever it is [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► that a person enjoys there's always the [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► desire to complicated [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► mm it's like drinking games oh yeah yeah [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► but even like with drinking games where [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► it's like really like you kind of have a [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► game to drink [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► yeah you know in this case you gotta [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► have a good have a pouch for everything [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► some people love to be organized they [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► have people are bored yet you know you [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► know in all honesty I'm gonna tell you [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► I'm gonna tell you a little story [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► ok last night i was cleaning house [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► cleaning a room in my house that hadn't [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► been cleaned in a long time and I was [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► having some i was getting some help [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► getting some help cleaning the room [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► because I was not able to do it myself [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► because this was the room of stories [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► oh my goodness yeah and so the room of [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► stories it's very hard for me to clean [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► it i can clean other rooms in the house [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► but the room stories it's hard because [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► you have everything you pick up as a [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► very long story attached to it and I [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► don't want to throw it away because then [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► you throw the story away but anytime I [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► ask somebody to help me they end up [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► sitting on the floor while I tell them [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► stories about things and the room [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► doesn't get cleaned yeah and so I had a [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► I had a friend helping me clean the room [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► and she was very unsympathetic which is [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► what was needed [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► yeah but i had to say to her like listen [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► you have to be somewhat sympathetic [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► because you know these stories they they [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► all matter and at one point she picked [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► up a pouch which was a tactical velcro [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► hook and hook and bead pouch which I [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► actually got from you i was doing the [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► flying on it [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► nope it's a pouch that was designed to [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► go on the strap of a messenger bag right [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► so already it's it's like bike messenger [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► connected and it i believe it was for an [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► ipod or maybe an early iteration of a [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► phone [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► yeah it was i'm pretty sure I know what [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► it's for it was for you can put your [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► candy bar phone in this velcro holder [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► and it had the velcro wouldn't go around [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► you like your turn back to strap that's [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► right you can access access your phone [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► it was Timbuktu branded and she said [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► what does this does this does this fit [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► your phone and I was like no she's also [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► but that's gotta be good for something [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► she's well because that's exactly what i [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► said and she said doesn't fit any item [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► that you currently have and I said no no [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► but it's that that's not what matters [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► it's a bit of perfectly great little [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► pouch you could put matches in it at [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► udcc I've I could say and nothing I [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► don't not sure you're talking about here [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► but whoever that person is an [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► understanding that may have been [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► designed have a nokia phone in it but [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► that doesn't mean you gotta quit fucking [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► nokia phone and now there could be there [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► could be 1500 paper clips in there you [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► could put talking about the popcorn [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► popcorn in there [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► thank you could put popcorn in there [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► that is not a thing I thought the [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► popcorn hold but I could should have [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► said that you could put a bunch of short [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► pens are you can you can have a handbook [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► space but it's a handful of space but [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► right before conference you can have [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► space pens made that you give out to [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► people you see myself well I don't want [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► to dig in my bag everything i want to [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► give away a band I got emotional about i [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► have apart from everybody and even one [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► hand sanitizer in there you could fill [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► it with it you can fill it with a with [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► like a conditioner you can put coffee [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► beans in their members great so so I so [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► I'm fighting her on this Timbuktu strap [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► a tactical strap holder like you know a [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► toothpick candle holder and she said she [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► gave me this look the stern look the [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► unsympathetic look and she said [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► seriously gonna fight me over this thing [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► and I was like no and she said good and [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► she put it in the go to the thrift store [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► bag huh [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► and I was like okay I mean that is a [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► time sometime i agree but seriously that [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► is a perfectly good tactical pouch and [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► then the next thing she held up was a [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► piece of green string and it was a it's [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► a beautiful piece of green string that I [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► have been keeping around because I knew [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► it was a special piece of string and I [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► knew that it was going to be useful i [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► haven't yet figured out how it's going [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► to be useful but it was definitely going [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► to be useful and I realized that she was [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► holding it up that I had been carrying [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► it with me for 23 years and that every [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► time I pulled it out of something I was [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► like this is killer string it was about [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► one foot long and then and the thing is [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► it's just a piece of string so I would [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► move it whenever I would be cleaning out [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► earlier box i would just move the string [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► to the new box because it seemed crazy [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► to throw away this incredible one foot [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► length of string and she was likes and [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► again she came into like seriously this [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► yeah i mean before I even protested she [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► was like what is this even in both of [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► these cases also there's not particular [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► stories associated with these but but [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► there is to you obvious utility in these [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► magical potential potential utility [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► potential utility there was always going [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► to be a moment when I was like cut out [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► you know what I need one foot of really [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► awesome green string or six inches twice [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► or six inches twice of green string but [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► but string that has to be spent it has [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► big string that has a kind of special [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► some mad magnitude Trapattoni gift for a [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► mouse [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► well that is exactly one of the things [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► that I thought of but in any case she's [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► holding up the string and I I so I had [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► already acquiesced to the timbuk2 pouch [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► going in the thrift store thing but the [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► string was a bridge too far and i took [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► the string and I just hiding string [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► saving I tied it around my wrist wrapped [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► it around twice tied it with a job he [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► and I said look it is now it is [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► decorative and I'm not somebody who [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► wears a lot of adornment but now i have [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► so today i have this spectacular i think [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► green sort of rope risks a but it's like [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► a personal Kabbalah thing because [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► without men like Madonna bracelet [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► exactly well well isn't she the one who [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► made the Kabbalah bracelet popular for [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► you to everybody's wearing string this [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► is the problem the next thing that Jason [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► Finn says to me after he notices that [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► i'm wearing a t-shirt because he says [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► what's with the coldplay bracelet haha [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► oh my effing getting it from all sides [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► here I the string has been with me for [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► 23 years and now i'm rocking it i think [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► pretty well I think it's like it's [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► pretty jazzy but the thing is you're [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► like somebody like think about all the [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► things you just in this visit of ours [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► alone talking about being able to tell [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► the stories and feel the past of the [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► cars right you think about the way that [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► those startups out there are pulling the [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► memories out of old men's clothes you [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► look at the string and you see a story [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► you like somebody named night Shyamalan [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► movie like you're seeing stuff that [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► other people can't see it's not because [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► you're hallucinating [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► it's because they did they don't have [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► the sensitivity to the vibrations that [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► you use the right you see what these [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► objects are putting out there and [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► they're just walking past going what [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► really string think you're like yeah [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► string they do not make string like this [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► anymore if you went out like if you went [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► to a store that said just if there was [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► called just strength is probably a store [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► in Portland [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► I bet you there isn't it well or it's [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► that's the type of straws string string [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► along particles positively string strung [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► out and they have artisanal stretch [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► yeah it's also the type of store that [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► would be on the Main Street about [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► otherwise failing town haha alright [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► alright like it like it would be inside [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► the inside the former Tandy radio shack [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► that be a place called like strings and [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► things and you go in there and it's [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► every kind of strength maybe the maybe [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► the gal and I'm [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► i'm pretty sure it's a gal who's running [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► strings and things in downtown full of [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► cats down everything is your batty the [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► stripping yeah i bet you if i went in [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► there with this string and said can you [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► duplicate this string she would first of [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► all she would take a moment and be like [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► she got a loop but that's a little [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► jewelers live ya should get out she'd be [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► like that's incredible i haven't seen [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► string like that since the eighties [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► replicating the string it is not [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► possible because she would go [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► possible because she would go [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► back in the back and she bring some [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► string out you're crashing sheep yeah [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► that's right she'll be back there for 20 [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► minutes should come out and she'd have a [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► really apologetic look on her face and [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► she'd say this is as close as I get but [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► it just wouldn't have the hefty just [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► three inches of light green jute yeah [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► exactly it wouldn't it wouldn't have the [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► it wouldn't have the waft or the the for [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► the Wolves mm and and we would both [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► agree [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► no in fact that isn't it and I would [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► walk out of there with the string that I [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► have the string that I came in with you [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► know what I mean [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► and I'd be like that's right my-my to [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► Mike my foot foot foot and it's [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► basically a foot 12 inches of great [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► strain and and no one can no one can [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► take it from so glad you saved it i did [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► get I did I did allow for a lot of [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► things to get thrown away Bell what [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► would you get money ask what were some [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► like you know pound-for-pound for some [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► relatively easy ones to let go of [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► everything we're like that [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► I'm glad somebody brought it up well [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► there are two two things stick out one [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► of them was about 15 years ago I took I [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► took a correspondence geology course and [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► i really enjoyed it and the way that you [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► either way that you did the course was [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► you you know you did your homework [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► mailed it into the professor and the [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► professor corrected it and mailed it [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► back to you kidding me [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► we said correspondence course about you [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► it really hit literally sent in the mail [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► that mailed it in an envelope to hide [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► was a long time ago and so I I carried [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► on this correspondence course and i [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► really enjoyed the studying and I [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► enjoyed the geology and I enjoyed the [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► homework but when and everything was [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► that that you would send the the the [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► homework in and also sending a [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► self-addressed stamped envelope [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► so the professor would send them the [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► homework back in an envelope which had [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► your handwriting on it [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► I remember the East always feel so weird [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► to get a letter in my own handwriting ya [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► self addressed stamped is when you can't [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► remember what it was for right even [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► weirder right when they're gone for a [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► long time and then you're like you just [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► get the self-addressed stamped envelope [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► thanks so much anymore but that used to [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► be a thing if you want free stuff it [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► tells me some stickers or get our [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► catalog or something like that or you [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► know and it must be so weird to get mail [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► and it was like a folded-up envelope [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► with your own handwriting on it was [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► super creepy [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► yep so I got all the homework [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► assignments back but I never opened the [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► envelopes and now now that I've said it [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► a couple of times i don't know whether [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► to pronounce that envelope envelope also [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► i'm gonna go with envelope from here on [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► out they were envelopes to begin with [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► but now their envelopes so but i but i [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► enjoyed the class so much that it wasn't [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► like I wanted to throw them away i just [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► didn't I didn't care what I didn't care [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► about the grade i didn't care about the [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► you know I just never opened them but i [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► kept them so i had 10 or 12 pretty thick [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► envelopes it in my own handwriting that [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► I knew had an entire class of geology in [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► it and I couldn't and now it was 15 [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► years old I couldn't bring myself to [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► throw it away and my unsentimental [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► friend was like again I mean she really [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► only needed one look which was seriously [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► see that it's sort of like not clean out [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► your couch all the way I don't want to [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► leave something oh please tell me you [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► open at least one of them so I so I was [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► like all right and the thing is my job [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► at the at this at this point in the [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► cleaning had become just sit in a chair [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► and things end up in my lap and I'm [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► telling the story of them and she's [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► ignoring me and and you know figuring [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► stuff out but so I opened up the first [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► one and here's this geology homework [TS]

01:04:00 ◼   ► from 15 years ago and there's red [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► teacher marks all over it from a teacher [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► that I had never met [TS]

01:04:12 ◼   ► saying great job really interesting read [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► you know really interesting uh idea or [TS]

01:04:21 ◼   ► whatever because I you know it was like [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► I was I was expanding on it wasn't just [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► like is this shifter what it was like I [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► was talking about a geological ideas and [TS]

01:04:33 ◼   ► so then I opened another one and hear [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► all these red marks from this teacher [TS]

01:04:37 ◼   ► where she's like John I really thought [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► that this was you know great job and [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► this is you know in here a couple more [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► things to think about and so then I'm [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► opening all the envelopes and I had been [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► having this whole conversation with this [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► teacher but I wasn't aware of it because [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► I never opened the envelopes and by the [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► end of the class she was writing all [TS]

01:04:56 ◼   ► these long red remarks like you know [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► what a pleasure having you in the class [TS]

01:05:00 ◼   ► you know this you didn't you know [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► exceptional work throughout and this is [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► clearly an a paper at every level and [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► and you know and at one point she was [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► like I'm from Alaska to and started on [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► my Kaiser never even knew never knew huh [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► and this has just been sort of sitting [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► there on my you know on it really [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► actually on top of a dresser in the room [TS]

01:05:26 ◼   ► of stories for all this time and you [TS]

01:05:32 ◼   ► know now i feel like i should look her [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► up [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► uh we had we had a really great [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► conversation going and I was [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► communicating exclusively in geology [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► homework but she was you know sending me [TS]

01:05:50 ◼   ► all this sort of flank personal chatty [TS]

01:05:53 ◼   ► professor stuff my goodness and it was [TS]

01:05:57 ◼   ► really it was pretty heavy and so I got [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► to the last assignment which was the [TS]

01:06:03 ◼   ► final paper which I barely remember [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► writing it's like a 15 page paper on the [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► island of Santorini and it's covered in [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► her remarks and I was like all right you [TS]

01:06:20 ◼   ► know what I can throw away all of these [TS]

01:06:23 ◼   ► you know all these worksheets and all of [TS]

01:06:29 ◼   ► these maps and all of this all of this [TS]

01:06:31 ◼   ► colored pencil stuff I can throw it all [TS]

01:06:34 ◼   ► away but i'm not going to be able to [TS]

01:06:36 ◼   ► throw away this final paper with all of [TS]

01:06:37 ◼   ► these personal remarks on it and so my [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► unsentimental friend had provided for me [TS]

01:06:44 ◼   ► by this time a multi pocket file folder [TS]

01:06:48 ◼   ► which the truly on on a colorable items [TS]